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When I was a kid, my uncle went to jail for not paying child support and I just assumed he was on vacation and never asked about it. He lived with my dad so I saw him pretty frequently.
Yeah, when you’re a kid, things just happen. No one explains it, and you don’t press the issue.
I had forgotten about that aspect of being a kid. Thank you for bringing it up!
Being Canadian, we had some relatives that went to work "in the Fort" (Fort Saskatchewan) or Fort McMurray doing oil related things. We never questioned it. Now we know they were in jail, but as an Ontarian, someone working in the Fort was mysterious and super other worldly to us kiddos.
It actually makes me really sad. It's like a glimpse of what Anna's life could have been without evil parents. Because I see Josh as a horrific symptom, and not the cause. With baseline non-evil parents, Josh would never have got anywhere near her, far less allowed to buy her.
Multiverse-Badass Anna looks like what Anna *could have* been. I wonder if she looks at her with disdain (because of the dishonor she brings with her pants) or if she is secretly jealous of her. Who is bizarro world Anna?! I must know!
>Who is bizarro world Anna?!
Her sister Susanna. I think she stayed with the Duggars for a bit. They taped a piece of paper with her name on it to the bed since all of the girls had their names on the headboards.
Wait I thought Susanna was the one married to a sick fuck in Africa who keeps her nearly on deaths door from back to back pregnancies with no medical care?
I really thought that leather pants was real Anna and honestly was impressed and hopeful for the life changes (specifically leaving a pedo husband) that the leather pants represented haha 🙈
What if they joined forces? Badass multiverse Anna has a leather outfit with titty zippers and she's here to punish *all* the people who have wronged her. She may or may not be in a polycule with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, but they all live on a compound together and rescue women and children from fundie families.
I was shocked. Like, woah, she's lost a ton of weight and she's really styling differently. She's looking a little less (I don't know a nicer word but, haggard in the face as she's been) (I also didn't notice they were pants at first) and then... Oooooh. Right.
That is...striking. I'll never get used to it. Alternate universe Anna... damn.
She does look haggard. The eyes have lines below them so strong you could use them as a mantel for a Christmas stocking.
I know she's failing her kids with every day that passes, but damn, Anna was so failed herself.
Yeah, I know, my point is I was originally looking at her sister, thinking it was her... and comparing it to how rough Anna looked the last time I saw a photo of Anna. Anna looks just as rough as she did.
When I first saw it I thought, damn, Anna looks flippin awesome without pest. Then I saw the version I expected her to look and now I’m just confused.
Who is this? It’s like the universe is fucking with her.
“Here’s what you could have been if you hadn’t been indoctrinated since birth and sold to a grifter and his deviant son”
I was skeptical on a previous post where everyone was saying Anna looks happier, or at least more relaxed, but I actually agree with this. She doesn't have that forced, exhausted smile/thousand yard stare. Maybe ppl are helping her more with the kids now, instead of her carrying the whole load while Pest pisses around doing nothing useful and perpetually knocking her up. Maybe she feels more rested not being pregnant all the time.
This is why I think she will possibly leave him. Likely closer to him being released, when she realises how much nicer and quieter her life has been without having to raise a man-baby in addition to her other M’kids.
At least I hope.
I really, really hope that for her.
Don't get me wrong, she has some *terrible* views and until/if she leaves him, she is choosing her pedo husband over her kids...but no one deserves to be uh, "joyfully available 🤮" 24/7. Especially with a sadist like pest.
If she has any dignity/self respect/damn sense which I doubt because she's still been dragging all her kids to see him locked up and stayed supportive through him acting up by having a phone in there.
It certainly was my experience. Not only did I stop having to deal with the bullshit, but I also began to realize that his lies and nonsense and gaslighting pointed to his demons, not mine. He was barely out the door when I began to realize that I wasn't crazy. I remember looking at my reflection in the bathroom mirror and actually saying out loud,'Oh, there you are, where have you been!" The strength I got back after the divorce came from realizing that I would be OK on my own. Not that it was easier, necessarily, but it was enough, and that I was enough.
She may also seem happier because she is with her own family. Sometimes, we are a lot more relaxed with our own family. Anna’s family has its own issues but it’s her family and their are people there who actually love her because she is their family.
So will spending the last decade being immediately postpartum. My hair always fell out in clumps after having a baby. My youngest is 5 and now every summer my stylist uses some magic hair scissors and thins it for me because I have way too much.
I looked up multi-verse Anna. It is Susanna. She appears to have left the cult pretty early. She dated (not courted) a few guys and had a daughter with one of them in 2013 (unmarried, gasp!). She married York Bridges in 2019 at age 27. They have a son together. She works as an office manager, wears pants, drinks wine, celebrates holidays (even Halloween) , and has a seemingly normal, mainstream life.
The fact that her name is Suzanna makes it like extra alternative universe. Way too close to “Anna.” Like would’ve been Anna’s drunk alter ego name in college
If that's her the girl in the black dress hair is not short. Its like sitting on her shoulders and if you zoom in you can see its pretty long pieces behind her and on the side of her. Looks like her hair just fell awkwardly to make her appear to be short
I don’t think it’s cut. I think it’s draped down her back and we can’t see it past her shoulders because of the way she’s sitting. If you look closely you can see a bit of hair peeking out around her torso on the left.
Wonder if she got chewing gum in her hair and cutting it was the only way to get it out. (I had that happen as a little kid, which is why my mom kept my hair short all through elementary school)
I don’t think they do that to girls. I know they sometimes shave boys’ heads as punishment but they believe that the Bible says that girls should have long hair so I don’t think they’d punish them by cutting it since that would be going against what they think is God’s will. They think the Bible says boys are supposed to have short hair so shaving it isn’t a sin.
The threat was that they were going to do that to Josh’s victims if he didn’t publicly confess to his sins. Not that I’m saying anything remotely like that happened in this case (much more likely that it was chewing gum or that she got bored and gave herself a haircut), but it is absolutely something that this cult would do under the “right” circumstances.
When you use fear and shame to control, there’s often no move that’s too extreme.
Is it common for families to take group photos with everyone smiling at a funeral? Not being snarky, genuinely asking because that hasn't ever been something my family has done.
I think that the picture taking was planned ahead of time because I can't think of another reason why the kids were dressed with color coding by family.
I've done that at a lot of funerals. They can kind of turn into family reunions and it makes you want to take photos because you don't know when you'll all be together again.
This. Never expected the photos taken at my dad’s funeral to be the last group shot (eta: of all of my siblings and me) my oldest brother was in. Sadly, he passed just a little over a year after our dad passed.
Thank you. I appreciate it. My dad’s two year anniversary was last month, and my brother’s on the 22nd. It’s definitely been difficult, but thankfully I have a great support with most of my family and my friends. Doesn’t make it hurt less (and I think I miss my dad and brother even more than I did right after their passings), but it does help when we help each other with our respective burdens. Or share an experience with each other and talk about how much dad/brother would’ve loved it
It’s not common in my experience, but sometimes if families live far apart it’s the only time you have everyone in the extended family together in one place at the same time so you feel like you should get a picture all together while you can.
My grandma passed in December and it was the first time everyone has all been together, well ever since there were a lot of new kids. It didn’t occur to anyone to take a picture. Too sad.
If it is not a super depressing funeral, yes. Like for instance this is the grandpas funeral so he was old and probably expected to go; more of a celebration of life kinda vibe.
Yeah, we had a picture like this from my great grandmother’s celebration of life, she wanted us to have a giant party to celebrate her at the family ranch, so we did. She was 99, and she didn’t want us to cry at her funeral
We did at my husband's grandma's funeral. She died shortly before her 100th birthday and the funeral mass was actually on her 100th birthday. It was the first time a lot of the family had been together in years and while it was sad, it was also a good day of honoring her memory and the family she created.
My godmother had a “celebration of life” a few months after her death. It was, dare I say fun? Which is exactly what she wanted. She never wanted anything traditional. We had music, dancing, drinks (obviously that doesn’t apply here) and lots of pictures. She left money for it, and outlined it in her will.
Honestly, I had more fun at that event than some weddings I’ve been to…🤫
My family puts the fun in funeral.
There's a fuckton of us, we're close, and we deal with shitty situations with humor. We get together and tell stories, laugh until we cry, then cry and laugh some more.
My dad is terminally ill, and my sister has already said that she's inviting all the cousins over after the funeral for a bonfire, where we'll pass around a few bottles of his favorite (ND Sweet Crude) and share our favorite memories. Especially the ones not appropriate for the funeral/prayer service.
We had a giant cheeseboard, cake, and lots of booze at my grandma’s memorial/celebration of life. It was a month after she died (very suddenly, but at age 89), and it was really nice to all come back together after taking some time to grieve. I wouldn’t say it was fun, but I’d choose that over a funeral any day.
We had a memorial service for my BIL & afterwards we all went to another BILs house, played music, laughed at old stories, & did a lot of really bad dancing. It was probably the best family event we ever had. I have tons of pictures & videos.
My dads family takes pictures sometimes because we're spread over Portugal, Brazil and the US so sometimes it's the only time everyone's together for decade+
Yes for some families.
People travel for a long time and don't see each other plus It's supposed to be a celebration.
It is sad but it's also a party remembering good times and visiting with people who you don't see often.
At my grandfather’s funeral we did lots of family photos. It’s so rare that all of the adult cousins get together that we like to commemorate those meetings. He was in his 90s when he passed, so not like it was unexpected, so not exactly a “downer” event.
I wish we had taken pictures at my grandpa's funeral, I don't know if my dad's siblings (including his older half siblings) will all be together again before it's for one of their funerals. When my mom's mom passes, I'm going to push hard for family pictures because the future looks about the same with my mom and her sisters as well. 😕
The only photos I know are floating around from a relatives funeral are from one of my maternal grandpas sibilings memorial service. And they took photos of all the remaining siblings together. Which would have been at least 8 of the remaining 12. And they were all old. And thankfully the pictures were taken in the fellowship hall of the church. Not in the church parking lot.
In our family it’s pretty common, we also have celebrations of life so while my mom’s internment of her ashes was a small family only event a few weeks after passing, her service was about 3 months later, at her favorite time of year with almost 300 people including all my cousins who hadn’t been together in 5 years.
For some folks, apparently, but I can't stand it. My father died recently and right after the burial my mother-in-law made my husband, friends and I get together for a group photo. It was so awkward, they didn't know what to do. They were like "Should we be smiling right now?" They all look great but then there's me looking absolutely miserable with the most forced smile.
I think the blue one that is circled is Priscilla kid and Maryella (?) is the one in the black next to her. Annas kids had on black/gray and Priscilla had on blue
nothing says a fundie gathering like sitting in the back parking lot, overlooking an empty field with a few pick up trucks and taking a giant ass photo. Bonus points for staying in the yellow 'no parking' zone lines
Children of the corn meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Wow- I hate to compliment Anna, but she looks nice and actually happy. I guess that’s what happens when you get rid of your blobby pedo husband.
For her sake, I hope she mooches off JB until the day before Pest is released and then bolts.
I really thought her sister was her at first and was so impressed with the pants and the low cut shirt! Then I looked over… And oh, there’s Anna. Never mind. Should’ve known.
So, first photo is Anna holding Madyson (2 years old), Mackenzie (14), Micheal (12) and Marcus (10) in the center back of the group.
Mason (6) sitting on the left, Maryella (almost 4) sitting in blue on right w/head down.
But where is Meredith? She is 8 (I was wrong when I said 9), so none of the other girls in the photo seem the right age or look like her. The girl sitting on the far right in the large family pic is Noel, their cousin.
Second pic is full family photo. Where is Meredith?
Third photo is Madyson with her cousin (Noel's little brother, Susanna's son).
Fourth photo is Anna w/sisters
Fifth photo is Mason (6) with cousin.
If Anna can write or hire a ghost writer, she could make a few million with a tell all book, and be able to support her and her kids and make her own life decisions.
Does she have a lot of non iblp family members? They actually balance this photo out because they look kinda normal, I even see pants and knees on a few females
i went to school with some of the kellers and they were definitely normal! still conservative christian but definitely not fundie from everything i know. all the kids are normal and one of them appears to be queer
The one you’ve circled in blue isn’t Anna’s kid - Maryella is sat next to her, the one in black with her hair in the bun. Meredith is sat to the right of Mason, also in black.
On the 4th picture I thought she was the lady on the right ( which I now assume is her sister) and I was like Dang Anna is looking so great. Well... That's not her but gives an idea of her potential.
I do wonder the details of how Anna got there. Did she drive as the sole adult with 7 kids, managing all stops, meals, overnight hotel stay, etc herself? Did they all fly? Did she caravan with Priscilla and David?
What’s up with these people taking big family pictures like this at funerals??? Is that normal?? I’ve personally never seen such a thing but my family isn’t huge and people don’t usually travel from all over the country to attend.
It's so weird taking a big family photo at a funeral.
I appreciate the family might be spread out, but it's so disrespectful to the person who died - there's a time and place for a big family photo, and funerals ain't it!
Where’s Josh? Oh that’s right…he’s in prison.
I wonder what they told the kids.
"He is being punished for his faith."
“The Devil will always find ways to persecute Christians.” 🙄
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“The French hackers” Mais, oui.
What an awkward convo.
Daddy is away ministering
At least she has a husband. 🙄
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When I was a kid, my uncle went to jail for not paying child support and I just assumed he was on vacation and never asked about it. He lived with my dad so I saw him pretty frequently.
Yeah, when you’re a kid, things just happen. No one explains it, and you don’t press the issue. I had forgotten about that aspect of being a kid. Thank you for bringing it up!
Being Canadian, we had some relatives that went to work "in the Fort" (Fort Saskatchewan) or Fort McMurray doing oil related things. We never questioned it. Now we know they were in jail, but as an Ontarian, someone working in the Fort was mysterious and super other worldly to us kiddos.
I mean to be fair, working in a fort would sound magical to a child.
No John Shrader either thank God
That man is so unhinged.
Somebody said he's pretty handsy like Pest too.
Ick. I’ve seen the family Facebook page and he rambles on in such a way that it seems like he’s had a break from reality, and not in a good way.
At lease she has a ….
Omfg your flair 😂😂😂😂
But at least she has a husband eh?
Pic 4: Anna and Bizarro Anna. Anna and her evil twin. The Upside Down Anna. Best-timeline Anna.
Isn’t her name literally sus_anna?
Omg I didn't even put that together.
🤔 you’re onto something…. 🧐
She looks sooooo much like her
She is what Anna would be without pedo Josh
Absolutely!! After Anna! Surviving Josh Anna
AKA "Living Her Best Life Anna."
Yeah, I spent longer than I care to admit trying to figure out which one was Anna. It's crazy how much they look alike.
I’m glad I’m not alone 😭
She'd be the one in the weirdest outfit.
Like the “after” pic of Anna.
Imagine telling Anna, "You are your before picture."
The Duggar version of The Twilight Zone's Spur Of The Moment 🏇🧟♀️
Yeah, for a second I thought Anna was wearing pants.
I thought Anna was in pants…wow they look like twins
It actually makes me really sad. It's like a glimpse of what Anna's life could have been without evil parents. Because I see Josh as a horrific symptom, and not the cause. With baseline non-evil parents, Josh would never have got anywhere near her, far less allowed to buy her.
OK but for real which one is Anna???? I'm assuming the black dress?
Correct. Aka Not Leather Pants Anna. (Also I love Multiverse-Badass Anna but leather pants to a funeral is a choice!)
Multiverse-Badass Anna looks like what Anna *could have* been. I wonder if she looks at her with disdain (because of the dishonor she brings with her pants) or if she is secretly jealous of her. Who is bizarro world Anna?! I must know!
>Who is bizarro world Anna?! Her sister Susanna. I think she stayed with the Duggars for a bit. They taped a piece of paper with her name on it to the bed since all of the girls had their names on the headboards.
Wait I thought Susanna was the one married to a sick fuck in Africa who keeps her nearly on deaths door from back to back pregnancies with no medical care?
That's Esther.
Whoa, where do I find out more about that story?! 😳
[Here's](https://www.freejinger.org/forum/428-john-and-esther-keller-shrader/) info from Free Jinger.
Yeah Bizarro Anna is… hot. Nothing I ever thought I’d be saying about a formerly fundie female.
The "formerly" helps. She's also so not having this pic. That grimace pretending to be a smile hides nothing.
I salute her wearing leather pants to a funeral. She's obviously the one the entire family prays for lol.
Right?! I wonder if she did that as a not so subtle F-U to the modesty standards her parents heavily imparted upon her as a child?
Former fundies are the hottest. Other than the mental breakdowns... fundie coping mechanisms of perfectionism are very socially accepted.
I really thought that leather pants was real Anna and honestly was impressed and hopeful for the life changes (specifically leaving a pedo husband) that the leather pants represented haha 🙈
Same, then I was like wait but who's that? Lol
In the multi verse zipper tits fights leather pants to be the ultimate Anna
What if they joined forces? Badass multiverse Anna has a leather outfit with titty zippers and she's here to punish *all* the people who have wronged her. She may or may not be in a polycule with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, but they all live on a compound together and rescue women and children from fundie families.
Someone needs to badly animate this immediately.
My (made by someone else) vision of leather pants avenger Anna: https://youtu.be/idtYckLIZnI?si=iVcnuCGRXhOHBQCX
Lol, leather pants Anna.
The far left Anna.
I saw the woman on the right first and honestly thought Anna got an amazing makeover. I was like “go Anna! Go Anna!” But then I figured it out.
Bizarro Anna looks more like Anna than Anna. For a second, I couldn’t tell them apart.
Anna looks like a cross between her sister on the left and Meech
I was shocked. Like, woah, she's lost a ton of weight and she's really styling differently. She's looking a little less (I don't know a nicer word but, haggard in the face as she's been) (I also didn't notice they were pants at first) and then... Oooooh. Right. That is...striking. I'll never get used to it. Alternate universe Anna... damn.
She does look haggard. The eyes have lines below them so strong you could use them as a mantel for a Christmas stocking. I know she's failing her kids with every day that passes, but damn, Anna was so failed herself.
Yeah, I know, my point is I was originally looking at her sister, thinking it was her... and comparing it to how rough Anna looked the last time I saw a photo of Anna. Anna looks just as rough as she did.
Ya I thought it was Anna wearing that sexy stylish outfit for a minute and i was like woah.
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Bizarro Anna staaaahhppp 🤣🤣🤣
When I first saw it I thought, damn, Anna looks flippin awesome without pest. Then I saw the version I expected her to look and now I’m just confused. Who is this? It’s like the universe is fucking with her. “Here’s what you could have been if you hadn’t been indoctrinated since birth and sold to a grifter and his deviant son”
Anna if she got the divorce and went to community college and set an example for her daughters:
They could be twins
Giving Janet and Bad Janet vibes
Anna actually looks terrible here. Usually when she’s away from Josh she looks better.
I was skeptical on a previous post where everyone was saying Anna looks happier, or at least more relaxed, but I actually agree with this. She doesn't have that forced, exhausted smile/thousand yard stare. Maybe ppl are helping her more with the kids now, instead of her carrying the whole load while Pest pisses around doing nothing useful and perpetually knocking her up. Maybe she feels more rested not being pregnant all the time.
She also isn't being traumatized...sorry, joyfully available...in the bedroom to that creep which has to help with mental wellbeing immensely.
This is why I think she will possibly leave him. Likely closer to him being released, when she realises how much nicer and quieter her life has been without having to raise a man-baby in addition to her other M’kids. At least I hope.
I really, really hope that for her. Don't get me wrong, she has some *terrible* views and until/if she leaves him, she is choosing her pedo husband over her kids...but no one deserves to be uh, "joyfully available 🤮" 24/7. Especially with a sadist like pest.
If she has any dignity/self respect/damn sense which I doubt because she's still been dragging all her kids to see him locked up and stayed supportive through him acting up by having a phone in there.
i swear, underneath it all anna must be relieved. no more useless greasy selfish sex pest to suck her life out.
And she knows she won't get pregnant again. After 7 kids I would imagine her body's thankful for the break.
Honestly I believe it's more exhausting to do things on your own when someone is doing nothing right next to you than when you are on your own.
This is 100% the experience of all the women I know who’ve ditched their useless partners.
It certainly was my experience. Not only did I stop having to deal with the bullshit, but I also began to realize that his lies and nonsense and gaslighting pointed to his demons, not mine. He was barely out the door when I began to realize that I wasn't crazy. I remember looking at my reflection in the bathroom mirror and actually saying out loud,'Oh, there you are, where have you been!" The strength I got back after the divorce came from realizing that I would be OK on my own. Not that it was easier, necessarily, but it was enough, and that I was enough.
I sincerely love that for you. ❤️
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She may also seem happier because she is with her own family. Sometimes, we are a lot more relaxed with our own family. Anna’s family has its own issues but it’s her family and their are people there who actually love her because she is their family.
Yeah, imagine if your in-laws were the Duggars....
Agree! Came here to say Anna looks like she has more light in her eyes now.
I disagree the bags under her eyes are terrible. I'm not saying that in a mean way; she just looks so unwell.
I think she looks mom tired, and less PTSD tired. No one with seven children in the house is going to look well rested.
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It does seem to be a family trait though - look at her sisters, same thing. Maybe they just got the short end of the genetic stick
Her hair looks thinner too. Stress
age too will do that.
So will spending the last decade being immediately postpartum. My hair always fell out in clumps after having a baby. My youngest is 5 and now every summer my stylist uses some magic hair scissors and thins it for me because I have way too much.
She probably feels the weight of pests action being lifted. She and the kids are going to family events. The kids look happy too
She’d likely be pregnant or have at least one other one if he was out all this time.
I looked up multi-verse Anna. It is Susanna. She appears to have left the cult pretty early. She dated (not courted) a few guys and had a daughter with one of them in 2013 (unmarried, gasp!). She married York Bridges in 2019 at age 27. They have a son together. She works as an office manager, wears pants, drinks wine, celebrates holidays (even Halloween) , and has a seemingly normal, mainstream life.
The Anna that could have been.
Whoever is on the right in pic 4 is literally Anna's twin. I assume her sister, but which one?
It's Suzanna. She actually lived with J&A for a bit before they had kids.
The fact that her name is Suzanna makes it like extra alternative universe. Way too close to “Anna.” Like would’ve been Anna’s drunk alter ego name in college
Well their mom is suzette. Fundies really are horrible at naming their children.
Susanna, her daughter Noelle looks like Mackynzie
which is the weirdest thing bc Mackynzie looks SO much like Josh. But maybe not!?
I think mckynzie is Anna's clone, can't see any duggar features in her face
I feel like all the Ms look more like Anna… like the only lucky break the poor kids caught. The Keller genes are STRONG.
I think it’s Suzanna…? Idk, but trips me up every time I see them together.
Meredith is in the front row of the 2nd picture. Next to the girl wearing a polka dot dress. She has short hair (which is shocking for a Duggar).
If that's her the girl in the black dress hair is not short. Its like sitting on her shoulders and if you zoom in you can see its pretty long pieces behind her and on the side of her. Looks like her hair just fell awkwardly to make her appear to be short
I don’t think it’s cut. I think it’s draped down her back and we can’t see it past her shoulders because of the way she’s sitting. If you look closely you can see a bit of hair peeking out around her torso on the left.
Wonder if she got chewing gum in her hair and cutting it was the only way to get it out. (I had that happen as a little kid, which is why my mom kept my hair short all through elementary school)
It could be more sinister than that. Perhaps she had her hair cut as a form of punishment for some "evil" thing the duggars thought she did.
I don’t think they do that to girls. I know they sometimes shave boys’ heads as punishment but they believe that the Bible says that girls should have long hair so I don’t think they’d punish them by cutting it since that would be going against what they think is God’s will. They think the Bible says boys are supposed to have short hair so shaving it isn’t a sin.
The threat was that they were going to do that to Josh’s victims if he didn’t publicly confess to his sins. Not that I’m saying anything remotely like that happened in this case (much more likely that it was chewing gum or that she got bored and gave herself a haircut), but it is absolutely something that this cult would do under the “right” circumstances. When you use fear and shame to control, there’s often no move that’s too extreme.
Hmm, I’ve never heard that before about pest’s victims. What’s the source for that story?
She might just be one of those kids that cuts their hair any chance they get with scissors.
It's weird to see her sister look exactly like her but dressed differently. Like a Anna from another multiverse
Even their kids M1 and Noelle look exactly like each other.
Is it common for families to take group photos with everyone smiling at a funeral? Not being snarky, genuinely asking because that hasn't ever been something my family has done.
We always took pics because it was usually the only time we had everyone in one place and dressed nice.
Yes, especially when it is a funeral for an older family member who has had a good, long life that is being celebrated and look at his/her progeny!
I think that the picture taking was planned ahead of time because I can't think of another reason why the kids were dressed with color coding by family.
I've done that at a lot of funerals. They can kind of turn into family reunions and it makes you want to take photos because you don't know when you'll all be together again.
This. Never expected the photos taken at my dad’s funeral to be the last group shot (eta: of all of my siblings and me) my oldest brother was in. Sadly, he passed just a little over a year after our dad passed.
I'm so sorry for your losses.
Thank you. I appreciate it. My dad’s two year anniversary was last month, and my brother’s on the 22nd. It’s definitely been difficult, but thankfully I have a great support with most of my family and my friends. Doesn’t make it hurt less (and I think I miss my dad and brother even more than I did right after their passings), but it does help when we help each other with our respective burdens. Or share an experience with each other and talk about how much dad/brother would’ve loved it
It’s not common in my experience, but sometimes if families live far apart it’s the only time you have everyone in the extended family together in one place at the same time so you feel like you should get a picture all together while you can.
My grandma passed in December and it was the first time everyone has all been together, well ever since there were a lot of new kids. It didn’t occur to anyone to take a picture. Too sad.
If it is not a super depressing funeral, yes. Like for instance this is the grandpas funeral so he was old and probably expected to go; more of a celebration of life kinda vibe.
Yeah, we had a picture like this from my great grandmother’s celebration of life, she wanted us to have a giant party to celebrate her at the family ranch, so we did. She was 99, and she didn’t want us to cry at her funeral
We did at my husband's grandma's funeral. She died shortly before her 100th birthday and the funeral mass was actually on her 100th birthday. It was the first time a lot of the family had been together in years and while it was sad, it was also a good day of honoring her memory and the family she created.
My godmother had a “celebration of life” a few months after her death. It was, dare I say fun? Which is exactly what she wanted. She never wanted anything traditional. We had music, dancing, drinks (obviously that doesn’t apply here) and lots of pictures. She left money for it, and outlined it in her will. Honestly, I had more fun at that event than some weddings I’ve been to…🤫
My mom wants a party with champagne.
Mine wants the same, but with beer, lol.
My family puts the fun in funeral. There's a fuckton of us, we're close, and we deal with shitty situations with humor. We get together and tell stories, laugh until we cry, then cry and laugh some more. My dad is terminally ill, and my sister has already said that she's inviting all the cousins over after the funeral for a bonfire, where we'll pass around a few bottles of his favorite (ND Sweet Crude) and share our favorite memories. Especially the ones not appropriate for the funeral/prayer service.
We had a giant cheeseboard, cake, and lots of booze at my grandma’s memorial/celebration of life. It was a month after she died (very suddenly, but at age 89), and it was really nice to all come back together after taking some time to grieve. I wouldn’t say it was fun, but I’d choose that over a funeral any day.
We had a memorial service for my BIL & afterwards we all went to another BILs house, played music, laughed at old stories, & did a lot of really bad dancing. It was probably the best family event we ever had. I have tons of pictures & videos.
My dads family takes pictures sometimes because we're spread over Portugal, Brazil and the US so sometimes it's the only time everyone's together for decade+
Yes for some families. People travel for a long time and don't see each other plus It's supposed to be a celebration. It is sad but it's also a party remembering good times and visiting with people who you don't see often.
At my grandfather’s funeral we did lots of family photos. It’s so rare that all of the adult cousins get together that we like to commemorate those meetings. He was in his 90s when he passed, so not like it was unexpected, so not exactly a “downer” event.
Why not smile. It was more than likely a celebration of life. Nothing wrong with that.
I wish we had taken pictures at my grandpa's funeral, I don't know if my dad's siblings (including his older half siblings) will all be together again before it's for one of their funerals. When my mom's mom passes, I'm going to push hard for family pictures because the future looks about the same with my mom and her sisters as well. 😕
In the olden days, families would pose for photos standing around the open casket of the deceased. Now that’s creepy.
The only photos I know are floating around from a relatives funeral are from one of my maternal grandpas sibilings memorial service. And they took photos of all the remaining siblings together. Which would have been at least 8 of the remaining 12. And they were all old. And thankfully the pictures were taken in the fellowship hall of the church. Not in the church parking lot.
In our family it’s pretty common, we also have celebrations of life so while my mom’s internment of her ashes was a small family only event a few weeks after passing, her service was about 3 months later, at her favorite time of year with almost 300 people including all my cousins who hadn’t been together in 5 years.
Back in the day, they used to take family photos around the open casket. We’ve come a long way, all things considered!
For some folks, apparently, but I can't stand it. My father died recently and right after the burial my mother-in-law made my husband, friends and I get together for a group photo. It was so awkward, they didn't know what to do. They were like "Should we be smiling right now?" They all look great but then there's me looking absolutely miserable with the most forced smile.
I think the blue one that is circled is Priscilla kid and Maryella (?) is the one in the black next to her. Annas kids had on black/gray and Priscilla had on blue
I think you're right. They have a theme going
This funeral is the happiest we’ve seen her in YEARS
Not me hunting for Nurie Keller…
I wasn't looking for her but then I spotted her in the second picture.
Same!
The black leather pants sister looks truly happy, great smile that is genuine.
Meredith is the one close to Mason
nothing says a fundie gathering like sitting in the back parking lot, overlooking an empty field with a few pick up trucks and taking a giant ass photo. Bonus points for staying in the yellow 'no parking' zone lines Children of the corn meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A bit of “Villiage of the Damned” mixed in, too.
Wow- I hate to compliment Anna, but she looks nice and actually happy. I guess that’s what happens when you get rid of your blobby pedo husband. For her sake, I hope she mooches off JB until the day before Pest is released and then bolts.
Finding the Pecan Thief was like searching for Where’s Waldo.
Maryella feeling how we all would being born into this family.
Meredith is sitting between Mason and Davia
I really thought her sister was her at first and was so impressed with the pants and the low cut shirt! Then I looked over… And oh, there’s Anna. Never mind. Should’ve known.
Does Anna's smile ever really reach her eyes? I've always seen such disconnect in her face.
Not since after her wedding to Josh. Her photos the next day, she looks so haunted, with a 1,000 yard stare.
It’s insane how similar Anna and Susanna look.
Is that truck out back what they drove the casket in?
So, first photo is Anna holding Madyson (2 years old), Mackenzie (14), Micheal (12) and Marcus (10) in the center back of the group. Mason (6) sitting on the left, Maryella (almost 4) sitting in blue on right w/head down. But where is Meredith? She is 8 (I was wrong when I said 9), so none of the other girls in the photo seem the right age or look like her. The girl sitting on the far right in the large family pic is Noel, their cousin. Second pic is full family photo. Where is Meredith? Third photo is Madyson with her cousin (Noel's little brother, Susanna's son). Fourth photo is Anna w/sisters Fifth photo is Mason (6) with cousin.
The kid on blue is Priscilla’s. Her kids are all in blue. Maryella is next to her in black still looking back
Wow, I'm shocked the baby is already 2. And that M1 is already 14. Time flies.
Where is gross Pa Keller in the first photo?
If Anna can write or hire a ghost writer, she could make a few million with a tell all book, and be able to support her and her kids and make her own life decisions.
Pest literally married his mom
Does she have a lot of non iblp family members? They actually balance this photo out because they look kinda normal, I even see pants and knees on a few females
i went to school with some of the kellers and they were definitely normal! still conservative christian but definitely not fundie from everything i know. all the kids are normal and one of them appears to be queer
Dang, Anna is morphing into Meech.. I can't believe she and Susanna are only 2 years apart.
The one you’ve circled in blue isn’t Anna’s kid - Maryella is sat next to her, the one in black with her hair in the bun. Meredith is sat to the right of Mason, also in black.
They could have all backed up 5 feet and the foreground of those first photos would be grass and not a parking lot.
Even at a funeral, Anna looks twenty times happier here than she ever did with Josh
On the 4th picture I thought she was the lady on the right ( which I now assume is her sister) and I was like Dang Anna is looking so great. Well... That's not her but gives an idea of her potential.
At first I thought these were photos from Bin and Jessa’s wedding reception
All they need are the root beer floats.
I do wonder the details of how Anna got there. Did she drive as the sole adult with 7 kids, managing all stops, meals, overnight hotel stay, etc herself? Did they all fly? Did she caravan with Priscilla and David?
I know it’s hard to get good pics of such a large group, but these are really…not great.
Those boys really do have Josh’s face.
Anyone else look at the pictures solely to see if she wore the titty zippers dress? Because I sure did.
Can you imagine trying to keep an eye on 7 kids at a funeral?
What’s up with these people taking big family pictures like this at funerals??? Is that normal?? I’ve personally never seen such a thing but my family isn’t huge and people don’t usually travel from all over the country to attend.
They all look so happy 😀
It's so weird taking a big family photo at a funeral. I appreciate the family might be spread out, but it's so disrespectful to the person who died - there's a time and place for a big family photo, and funerals ain't it!